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To: carranza2 who wrote (147501)	10/10/2004 11:59:26 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Think about it rationally for a second: 1.- Every single intelligence service, including those of other countries that opposed Bush's plans, thought Saddam had WMD. This is not a good arguement for you to use, since we are seeing clear and irrefutable evidence that the US administration was cherry picking ideas and concepts out of the intelligence data stream. Do you think, for example, that any foreign intelligence or domestic politicians would believe Bush "Saddam is trying to reconstitute his nuclear WMD program" if the were provided the objective facts that disputed Bush's assertion? No, of course not. Those facts were known in August 2001, but are only surfacing now to the rest of us. If you don't believe the administration as being capable, if not culpable, of cherry picking ideas and concepts and feeding only those which support their case, then it is you who are not thinking rationally. I could pick apart your other points too but, like you said to Suma in your response, its not worth it unless you are actually willing to think.

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